The Da Vinci code : a novel /
Brown, Dan, 1964-
The Da Vinci code : a novel / Dan Brown. - 1st ed. - New York : Doubleday, 2003. - 454 p. ; 25 cm.
"A desperate race through the cathedrals and castels of Europe." -- cover
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion--an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret--and an explosive historical truth--will be lost forever.
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Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 --Appreciation--Fiction.
Art museum curators--Crimes against--Fiction.
Cryptographers--Fiction.
Grail--Fiction.
Secret societies--Fiction.
Paris (France)--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
The Da Vinci code : a novel / Dan Brown. - 1st ed. - New York : Doubleday, 2003. - 454 p. ; 25 cm.
"A desperate race through the cathedrals and castels of Europe." -- cover
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion--an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret--and an explosive historical truth--will be lost forever.
0385504209 (alk. paper) 9780385504201 (alk. paper)
2002040918
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 --Appreciation--Fiction.
Art museum curators--Crimes against--Fiction.
Cryptographers--Fiction.
Grail--Fiction.
Secret societies--Fiction.
Paris (France)--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.